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Progress
Is it simply a matter of quantitative to qualitative change in his development, or is it the school that has accelerated the progress? There’s no way to know yet, but a whole of lot things did happen in just this one week. Nesting boxes, stacking rings, watering can, sand bucket, installing batteries, card insert in the wallet, and scooter! He had hardly played with his scooter since his unsuccessful try on the first day of getting it. Yesterday morning he just noticed it, got onto it and then “go”.
Oh, I forgot to mention that he had his first word. “What’s his name?” a girl asked me as we were playing together in the sand box, pointing to Randall. Just as I turned back to him and said “his name is Randall”, I heard a cheerful and loud reply “YEAH!”.
The Ring
“Oh, no, he swallowed my ring.” I jumped out of the bed, screaming the words I never thought I’d utter. Randall had woken up a few minutes earlier and had started playing with my rings just as usual, by taking them off and putting them back on my fingers time after time. I wasn’t alerted when he put one of the rings into his mouth. We always thought he was not the type that would swallow such things.
But he did. By accident. He was lying down on his back, and the ring slid into his throat. He gagged, and for that one second I was hoping he would cough the thing out. But it was gone. He swallowed it.
Randall seemed just fine as we rushed to emergency room, probably just wondering why we had taken a taxi trip without his schoolbag. I was so scared that I even avoided searching google, usually the first thing I’d turn to whenever something new came up with my son. The online results could be comforting, or could be worrying. Then there came a relief when the nurses at the reception laughed, “he will pass it out”.
He would, the doctor confirmed, after the Randall’s first X-ray pictures showed that the ring was in his stomach. Sunday morning, as I was going through his fourth poop diaper in two days, I got my ring back.
Leaves
Randall enjoys being at the playground a lot more now. He can climb up and go down the slide all on his own and often gets very excited and does it over and over again. Mum suggested going to Central Park on Sunday and was hoping that the trees there had taken on autumn colors, but unfortunately it was still too warm. Well, the fallen leaves were not bad and Randall looked absolutely gorgeous with his Columbia hat. Randall fell in love with this bottle. We haven’t seen him have so much water in a day since the end of Summer.
Randall also got a lot more verbal this week but was still speaking his alien language. He picked up a new body language though. When being offered things he doesn’t want, he has stopped pushing them away angrily. He would just shake his head, and occasionally with an unclear word of “no”. It was hilarious that after a 4-year-old girl talked with mum for a couple of minutes Randall burst into a long “sentence” as he was facing another kid.
We went to the Children’s Museum again this weekend, but Randall didn’t seem to enjoy it for long. We couldn’t figure out why but we did figure that when he looks for doors or exits or elevators it means he would like to leave.
Museum Day
We went to Children’s Museum of Manhattan for the first time this afternoon. Randall had great fun with the cave and a whole lot of other things.
Turtles
Dinosaur Park
School Picnic
Veronica, one of the teachers, told us that Randall was all about girls at the classroom. “If it’s Alex, he would be like ‘hi’ and then go away. Once he got to sleep next to Lenaig. And when he woke up, he was trying to lean over and kiss her.” she said, while taking out her phone and showing us the pictures, “You see, I got proof! You got caught, Randall.”
And not sure if it was his seeing Lenaig (the girl he had tried to kiss) get onto everything at the picnic that had aroused his climbing enthusiasm, he began conquering more challenging furniture at home the next morning. First was the TV stand, and next the coffee table.
Rolling
The Big Swing
Congrats, little man! You’ve made a big progress within just a week! Read more…
Cautious Man
We have long known that Randall is a slow-to-warm kid. Last weekend we started to take him to playground again, after realizing that he might be ready for some other activities aside from the swing. It turned out that he still enjoyed the swing but didn’t like the sand pit. He liked the water jets as well, and was obsessed with the stairs. Yesterday after figuring out how to climb up and back down by himself he did the up and down for dozens of times and refused to go back home. BUT, no matter how hard I tried, he wouldn’t go down from the slide. He just very very scared 😦
Ran Ran 